Backgrounds Quote by Peter Capaldi

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain…

— Richard O'Brien

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in…

— Brenda Blethyn

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous…

— James Purefoy

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in…

— Brenda Blethyn

We should be proud in Britain that there's a massive crossover between theatre and TV.

— Jonathan Bailey

I come from a traditional theater background.

— Mark Ruffalo

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

— Robert Sheckley

We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of some of…

— David Farr

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those…

— Diane Paulus

In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the…

— John Lahr

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

— Kim Cattrall

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

— Cab Calloway